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Thursday, 23 May 2013

RIP Lee Rigby – A brave soldier to the very end

Drummer Lee
Rigby was 25, he had a two-year-old son called Jack, he was married, he fought
for his country.

On Wednesday
afternoon, he was savagely attacked and brutally murdered because he dared to
wear a ‘Help for Heroes’ jumper outside Woolwich barracks.

Those are
facts, here are some LIES – It was a taste of Baghdad or Damascus on our
streets, it was a new front in the Muslim extremist war on the West and the day
real Islamic fundamentalism came to the UK.

Drummer Rigby
suffered at the hands of two irrational, spiteful and downright pathetic
cowards. Not brave to fight properly, they armed themselves against an unarmed combatant
and brutally murdered him ‘in the name of Islam’.

Except they
didn’t – my Twitter feed was busy on Wednesday night of shock, horror and
revulsion and abject condemnation.........from Muslim’s in the UK and beyond
who stood and said ‘not in our name’.

Many quoted the
Quran to make their feelings known about this pair while many simply just
condemned the men verbally.

It’s that we
need to focus on in the coming days, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Sikh,
Buddist standing together as one, as British people to condemn these men and
hope they rot.

After 7/7 did
we turn on our Muslim brothers and sisters, no, we stood tall and stood together.

These cowards
want to divide us, to begin a Holy War. I’ve news for you guys, Christians and
Muslim’s have been there for each other for a very long time.

During the
Holocaust, the predominantly Muslim population of Albania shielded the Jewish
population from Hitler’s army.

In the midst of
a genocide in Rwanda in 1994 which saw 1.2million die, tens of thousands of
Christian Tutsis fled into Muslim mosques to escape from the machete-wielding
Hutu mobs.

They were
shielded, many were saved.

Today, Muslims’
and Christians’ fight TOGETHER in the British Army and other forces around the
world.

And that brings
me onto the final point, the coward with blood on his hands called for ‘our
troops’ to be brought home. That was nothing more than a pithy little statement
to cover up a truly awful, abhorrent and cowardly crime.

Stand side by
side with men and women of all faith’s today, tomorrow and for the rest of your
time on this planet to show that cowards will never win.

My deepest
sympathies go to Drummer Rigby’s family, friends and colleagues. He died a hero
at the hands of cowards and together we will ALL remember that.